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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelIn this study, I want to investigate the types of filled pauses used by the
male university students and those used by the female students in answering
questions. After that, I compare it to find the similarities and the differences. That
is why I will use the theories about filled pauses, the relationship between filled
pauses with gender and also the theory about questions itself. In doing this study, I
employed a quantitative - descriptive approach. The data were obtained by
recording the utterances of 40 (forty) male Petra Christian University students and
40 (forty) female Petra Christian University students. After the recording, I
transcribed the data, identified, classified and finally analyzed it. From the
findings, I found four similarities. Firstly, both groups (the males and the females)
use the same five types of filled pauses which consists of 2 (two) Unlexicalized
Filled Pauses (ehm.. and ee/eh.) and 3 (three) Lexicalized Filled
Pauses (yah/ya/yo, apa/apa ya/apa nama?e itu and
gimana ya/ yak apa ya). Secondly, both the male and the female
students mostly use the Unlexicalized Filled Pause. Thirdly, I found that ?ehm...
and ...yah...../ya/yo are the types of filled pauses that most frequently
used by both groups. Fourthly, in general, the production of filled pauses by both
groups rises in line with the level of difficulty of the questions. However, not only
similarities, I also found the difference. The females use more types of filled
pauses compare to the males. The females use 6 types, while the males only use 5
types. The females use "kenapa ya", which the males do not use. Finally, I
noticed that even the males use fewer types of filled pauses than the females, they
show higher numbers and frequencies of the production of filled pauses.